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In a later dialogue bearing the title Ancients and
Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968
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Ancients, which is attended with divers ridiculous
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The Doctor prepares an Entertainment in the Manner of the Ancients, which is attended with divers ridiculous Circumstances.
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The Doctor prepares an Entertainment in the Manner of the Ancients, which is attended with divers ridiculous Circumstances.
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This quarrel first began, as I have heard it affirmed by an old dweller in the neighbourhood, about a small spot of ground, lying and being upon one of the two tops of the hill Parnassus; the highest and largest of which had, it seems, been time out of mind in quiet possession of certain tenants, called the Ancients; and the other was held by the Moderns.
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The knowledge contained in the Scroll of the Ancients was a power that the first Kingpriest had found so fearsome that he trusted no man with it - not even himself, or any of his successors.
The Reign of Istar Weis, Margaret 1992
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The Renaissance introduced a new thesis which although of doubtful value was, nevertheless, rich in consequences; the object of imitation should be not only nature but also, and foremost, those who were its best imitators, that is, the Ancients.
MIMESIS W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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The Ancients were a relic of the old Roman municipal organisation.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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The Ancients were a relic of the old Roman municipal organisation.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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All-Seeing Eye, which to the Ancients was the Sun.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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